Table of Contents

1. Preface and acknowledgements; 2. Abbreviations and orthographic conventions; 3. Chapter 1. Introduction; 4. Chapter 2. Bininj Gunwok kinship systems; 5. Chapter 3. Ways of referring to people in Bininj Gunwok; 6. Chapter 4. The kun-debi system of triadic kinship reference; 7. Chapter 5. Reference, grammar and indeterminacy in Bininj Gunwok conversation; 8. Chapter 6. Culture, reference and circumspection; 9. Chapter 7. The path of inference: The unravelling of referring expressions; 10. Chapter 8. The trouble with Wamud: A conversational example of unsuccessful reference; 11. Chapter 9. Person reference: Culture, cognition and theories of communication; 12. References; 13. Language index; 14. Subject index